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Interview No. 830, Barbara Leigh Rees
Interview No. 830, Barbara Leigh Rees
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; childhood memories of accompanying father on hospital rounds and his office in Roberts-Banner Bldg; describes father's practice, his "no appointment" system and payment by Mexican patients in silver during WW II; parents' membership in El Paso County Medical Society; Medical Society acquisition of S.T. Turner home; father's work at the Baby Sanitarium in Cloudcroft, NM, and St. Anne'S Clinic; discusses growing up in Manhattan Heights.
Interview No. 821, Henry Dodson Garrett M.D., Rebecca Garrett
Interview No. 821, Henry Dodson Garrett M.D., Rebecca Garrett
Combined Interviews
Part of the Health Care on the Border Project; Wm. Beaumont Army Hospital during WW II; relationship between civilian and military physicians; El Paso-County Hospital; treatment of tuberculosis ; Woman's Auxiliary of El Paso County Medical Society; acquisition of S.T. Turner home by Medical Society; prevention of polio and care of polio patients in El Paso and Hot Springs, N.M.; founding of El Paso County Historical Society and its publication, Password.
Interview No. 822, Venice E. Neilsen Gibney
Interview No. 822, Venice E. Neilsen Gibney
Combined Interviews
Part of Health on the Border Project; experiences with U.S. Army Nurse Corps; assignments at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, at Percy Jones Hospital, Battle Creek, Michigan, and at 350th MASH Unit at Wm. Beaumont Army Hospital; treatment of polio patients; closing of Hotel Dieu and Newark Maternity Hospital; discusses nursing profession.
Interview No. 820, María Elena Acevedo Flood
Interview No. 820, María Elena Acevedo Flood
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; early work experiences as medical transcriber, translator, and language instructor, health care in Mexico; grandfather's work as Public Health physician with U.S. government; construction of Diablo Hospital by Ray Peck, M.D.; history of Texas Tech Medical Center, development of medical school in Cd. Juarez, Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juarez; Chamizal Foundation.
Interview No. 827, Wayne L. Lorentzen, M.D.
Interview No. 827, Wayne L. Lorentzen, M.D.
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; family history including grandfather's participation in California Gold Rush; military stint in U.S. Navy during WW II; internship in Detroit; comments on segregation in hospitals; opening of first office in Gunning-Castile Bldg; discussion of pulmonary tuberculosis; changes in practice of medicine.
Interview No. 826, Mrs. Anne Camp Johnson
Interview No. 826, Mrs. Anne Camp Johnson
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border project; biographical information about Dr. and Mrs. S.T. Turner; attended El Paso School for Girls; describes Turner home; recalls childhood experiences in Turner home including Gen. John J. Pershing's visit.
Interview No. 819, Arlin B. Cooper, M.D.
Interview No. 819, Arlin B. Cooper, M.D.
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical data; medical school; father's friendship with H.L. Hunt, founder of Hunt Oil Co; experience in U.S. Army; trip with J. Frank Dobie to Yaqui area of Mexico; friendship with Carl Hertzog; lack of ethics training in current medical schools.
Interview No. 828, Laurance N. Nickey, M.D.
Interview No. 828, Laurance N. Nickey, M.D.
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; recalls El Paso childhood and participation in El Paso's first Sun Carnival; WW II in El Paso including the internment of German rocket scientist, landing of German V-2 rocket in Juarez, crash of B-24 Liberator Bomber on Mt. Franklin; work as an orderly in Thomason Hospital's emergency room; distribution of SABIN Oral Sundaes; El Paso County Medical Society Foundation; public health problems and issues along U.S.-Mexico border; relationship of El Paso City-County Health District to Wm. Beaumont Army Hospital and Cd. Juarez.
Interview No. 833, Maurice Spearman, M.D.
Interview No. 833, Maurice Spearman, M.D.
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; medical school; military duty with U.S. Navy; changes in El Paso's hospitals; experiences as editor of Southwestern Journal of Medicine; volunteer work with Southwestern Children's Home; founding El Paso Medical Center, comments on Roundtable meetings with Ed Pooley, editor of the El Paso Herald Post.
Interview No. 825, Robert Homan Jr. M.D.
Interview No. 825, Robert Homan Jr. M.D.
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; reminisces on opening of University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston; construction of tuberculosis sanitorium by father and John C. Crimmon, D.D.S; improvement of surgical procedures during WW II; advances of anesthesiology,; advent of sulfa drugs, penicillin and other antibiotics; changes in medical practice; establishing Thomason General Hospital.
Interview No. 817, Louis W. Breck, M.D.
Interview No. 817, Louis W. Breck, M.D.
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; medical education and training as U.S. Army Orthopedist; internship at El Paso at El Paso's City- County Hospital; area physicians ; El Paso County Medical Society.
Interview No. 773, Diana Natalicio
Interview No. 773, Diana Natalicio
Combined Interviews
General biographical data; career highlights at UTEP, institutional history during 1970s and 1980s, her major goals and accomplishments for the university.
Interview No. 781, Gary Massingill
Interview No. 781, Gary Massingill
Combined Interviews
Tells of his educational career and speaks of the influence of professors at UTEP, particularly W. H. McAnulty, then head of UTEP' s geological sciences department. Graduated PhD in May, 1979, the first PhD recipient at UTEP.
Interview No. 778, Luz Villegas
Interview No. 778, Luz Villegas
Combined Interviews
Tells of her experiences as a student 1977-1982 with special emphasis on student government activities 1981-1982 and working with Dr. Haskell Monroe, then president of UTEP.
Interview No. 779, Charles V. Balang
Interview No. 779, Charles V. Balang
Combined Interviews
Impressions of El Paso and comparisons of education and culture of Malaysia and the U.S.
Interview No. 772, Rudy Tellez
Interview No. 772, Rudy Tellez
Combined Interviews
El Paso native recounts experiences as student at Texas Western College 1948-1952; jobs at local radio stations. In 1964 he landed a job with national television network, became producer of the Johnny Carson Show and won 2 Emmys for TV work.
Interview No. 783, Milton Ottey
Interview No. 783, Milton Ottey
Combined Interviews
Describes first impression of El Paso; compares educational systems in Canada an U.S; tells about his track career as a high jumper including competition in 1984 Olympics, gold medals at the commonwealth games in 1982 and 1986; discussions of UTEP's coaching staff; comments about track team members Bert Cameron and S. Nyambui and comments on high numbers of foreign athletes on Ted Bank's UTEP track team ; describes UTEP'S winning the NCAA indoor track championship.
Interview No. 784, Donald S. Henderson
Interview No. 784, Donald S. Henderson
Combined Interviews
Describes TWC in 1950s, the dedicated teaching of the faculty, and race relation on campus; describes famous alligator prank and a panty raid; explains role of fraternities and sororities in campus life of the 1950s; lists accomplishments as mayor of El Paso.
Interview No. 782, Thomas F. Meagher
Interview No. 782, Thomas F. Meagher
Combined Interviews
Describes student life in early 1970s, lived in Kelly Hall, then a coed dorm, played tuba in UTEP band; discusses nursing curriculum, clinicals, early links of UTEP's nursing program to Hotel Dieu School of Nursing, the health care market.
Interview No. 777, Jose I. Oaxaca
Interview No. 777, Jose I. Oaxaca
Combined Interviews
Tells of childhood in Juarez and El Paso barrio, recalls experience as engineering student in the 1980s, how scholarship helped him, his job after graduation at Bell Helicoptor.
Interview No. 780, William S. Steven
Interview No. 780, William S. Steven
Combined Interviews
Describes life as a married student and athlete at Texas Western College 1964-67; tells teaching techniques of Dr. Porter of the history department; tells about his athletic career and playing football under Coach Bobby Dobbs and for Green Bay Packers.
Interview No. 831, Louise Schuessler, W.W. Schuessler
Interview No. 831, Louise Schuessler, W.W. Schuessler
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; comments on discrimination against military personnel in El Paso; El Paso County Historical society; early days of medical practice; ranch near Sierra Blanca; El Paso's role in helping patients with respiratory diseases; are hospitals; Border Patrol Museum.
Interview No. 776, Charles T. Brown
Interview No. 776, Charles T. Brown
Combined Interviews
Basketball career at Texas Western College 1956-1959; integration of college sports; race relations in El Paso and other places in the Border Conferences.
Interview No. 816, Mrs. Maurine Basom
Interview No. 816, Mrs. Maurine Basom
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; Woman's Auxiliary of El Paso County Medical Society; El Paso hospital in existence in early 1940s; husband's internship at El Paso City-County Hospitals; acquisition of S.T. Turner Home by Medical Society; husband's involvement in pioneering El Paso Orthopedic Surgical Group; Frank Goodwin, M.D, El Paso's first orthopedic surgeon; Medical Auxiliary collection of physician log books from 1869-1940s.
Interview No. 818, Mary Smith Caufield, Llillian Mount, Anna K. Mitchell
Interview No. 818, Mary Smith Caufield, Llillian Mount, Anna K. Mitchell
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical data; experiences in nursing school, private duty nursing; history of Masonic Hospital; volunteer work for Our Lady of Charity Sisters; St. Vincent's Clinic; St. Joseph Hospital; Newark Maternity Hospital; participation in president Lyndon B. Johnson's; Title One Health Care Program; polio epidemic and vaccinations; donation of S.T. Turner home to El Paso County Medical Society; sale of Hotel Dieu; demolition of Liberty Hall; relationship between nurses and physicians.
Interview No. 832, Sister Tharsilla Schwietzer
Interview No. 832, Sister Tharsilla Schwietzer
Combined Interviews
Recalls experiences as nurse at St. Joseph's Sanitorium, tuberculosis health care facility in El Paso, Texas; demolition of St. Joseph's Hospital; sketches history of Order of Sisters of St. Joseph; arrival of Order to El Paso in 1927; discusses changes in Order; comments on segregation of patients in hospitals.
Interview No. 824, Evelyn Foltz Slusser Holt
Interview No. 824, Evelyn Foltz Slusser Holt
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; training and work experience in obstetrics at El Paso Masonic Hospital; husband's work with Southern Pacific Railroad; polio and flu epidemics in El Paso; husband's house calls; Woman's Auxiliary of El Paso County Medical Society; closing of Masonic hospital.
Interview No. 823, Frances Hatfield
Interview No. 823, Frances Hatfield
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; recalls husband's intership at El Paso City-County Hospital and opening private practice in Ysleta; economic conditions during the Depression; husband's military stint during WW II ; residency in Houston; polio epidemic; activities of Medical Auxiliary during WW II; Woman's Auxiliary of the Texas Medical Association; acquisition of Turner home by El Paso County Medical Society.
Interview No. 770, Haskell M. Monroe
Interview No. 770, Haskell M. Monroe
Combined Interviews
Biographical information, born in Dallas and childhood years spent in Garland and Orange, Texas; influence of parents; college education and degrees from Austin College and Rice University; two years in Charleston, South Carolina, during service in the Navy; courtship and marriage to Jo Phillips; career highlights at Texas A&M, opinions and anecdotes about colleagues, reflections on his seven year as President of UTEP.
Interview No. 694, María Elena García Connolly
Interview No. 694, María Elena García Connolly
Combined Interviews
Why her family had to leave Mexico and come to the United States in 1916; settlement in El Paso; her schooling at St. Mary's, Loretto and El Paso High; her attendance at the Texas College of Mines; work as a teacher; some Mexican American graduates from the College of Mines and their careers; professors; sports; dances. Length